Word: lap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were a lot of stars, but the brightest was newly elected cross country captain John Quirk. Quirk won, as expected, in the mile, but only after being challenged by Army's Deacon Fee in the last lap. Quirk ran a 4:12.2, finishing two yards ahead of Fee, who was clocked at 4:12.8. Tom New took third for the Crimson...
...mile, Rick, Rojas and Mike Koerner ran all over the Cadets. Rojas took first in 9:02.2, and Koerner took second in 9:05.4. Half-a-lap behind was Army...
...Harvard's Rick Melvoin, running with a foot injury, held the lead most of the way. On the last lap, however, Army's Cort Bivens passed Melvoin on the outside and beat him at the line by a yard. Bivens also anchored the Cadets' victorious mile relay team. The final times were 1:13.4 for Bivens, and 1:13.6 for Melvoin...
...able to get down 2,000 words a day," he laments. "Now I'm happy if I can do 1,000." If he is still in the thinking stage, however, he sits in an armchair, his pipe rack beside him, and a dog or cat on his lap. Before arriving at his usual labyrinthine mystery-style plot-he is "awfully keen" on Agatha Christie and Rex Stout-he jots down something like 400 pages of notes. "I do like a book with an elaborate plot," he says. Old age? Piffle! "As long as I'm in a chair...
...realignment of the entire Pacific power structure, something very much like a total transformation appears to be under way even now. One thing that is certainly being mulled is new alliances. Says Sato, mixing his images: "If there is trouble inside the U.S., the waves caused by these troubles lap the Japanese shores. We must realize that we are in the same boat." Sato's successor is unlikely to abandon the boat, but he may look with new interest on Japan's biggest neighbors, the Soviet Union and China, as potential lifesavers. It is improbable, however, that...